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MEPS HC-118B: 2008 Dental Visits

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Release date: August 2010

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This public use data file is one in a series of event-level public use data files drawn from the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (HC). Released as an ASCII file with SAS, SPSS, and STATA programming statements and in SAS transport format, the Dental Visits File provides detailed information on dental events for a nationally representative sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States during the 2008 calendar year. This file consists of 2008 data obtained in the 2008 portion of round 3 and rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 12, as well as rounds 1, 2, and the 2008 portion of round 3 for Panel 13 of the survey (i.e., the rounds for the MEPS panels covering calendar year 2008), and contains variables pertaining to household reported dental visits. The file includes the date of the dental event, type of provider seen, if the visit was due to an accident, reason for the dental event, and whether or not medicines were prescribed.

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Documentation

File type

Documentation	PDF (276 KB) / HTML
Codebook	PDF (240 KB) / HTML*
SAS Programming Statements	TXT (79 KB)
SPSS Programming Statements	TXT (17 KB)
STATA Programming Statements	TXT (23 KB)

Data	File type**

Data File, ASCII format

ZIP (661 KB) / EXE (729 KB)

Data File, SAS transport format

ZIP (911 KB) / EXE (980 KB)

Questionnaires — see Survey Questionnaires
The PDF version of the codebook is recommended for printing; the HTML version is database driven and lets you navigate quickly to details on each variable. *Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.